NHER 69849 (Find Spot record) - Medieval and post-medieval to modern finds

April 2013. Test Pit.
Excavation of single test pit by local school children as part of the Higher Education Field Academy (HEFA) programme run by Access Cambridge Archaeology.
This test pit (ACL/13/2) was located at [1] and excavated to natural geological deposits, which were encountered at the relatively shallow depth of 0.54m. The small number of finds recovered included:
4 medieval pottery sherds.
7 post-medieval pottery sherds and 4 clay tobacco pipe stem fragments.
7 late post-medieval/modern pottery sherds.
This test pit also produced a range of other finds that were not subject to specialist examination, the majority of which are either of probable late post-medieval to modern date or inherently undatable. These additional objects include 2 flat tile fragments, 21 unidentified ceramic building material fragments, pieces of vessel and probable window glass, a copper alloy possible nail, 2 corroded iron scraps and an oyster shell.
For further details, including a wider discussion of the results of the HEFA test pitting surveys undertaken in Acle between 2009 and 2014 see report (S1), which incorporates information from pottery report (S2).
P. Watkins (HES), 13 May 2026.